Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Ominous

5 minute walk
leg swings
.5 mile jog


20 minute EMOM
10 burpees

This workout will get the ol ticker revving.  I finished the last set in 36 seconds which is only 5 seconds slower than my first set.  I survived.  My legs are still a bit stiff from squats on Sunday.  Usually I do another leg day midweek.  I'll see how things are feeling tomorrow.

Seems like I am the last to know sometimes.  This will be an eventful Christmas.  A wise man once said "do not pray for an easy life.  Pray for the strength to endure a hard one."  Here we go.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Not So Fast

5 minute walk
.5 mile jog

leg swings
hip joint work
5 minute squat hold

5 sets 10 (5 each leg)
pistols
1 minute rest

3 sets 20 (10 each leg)
skater squat
1 minute rest

50 air squats

3 grip crushers


I backed off on the rep count for the pistols today.  The last two times I did the full 100 reps my left quad felt strained.  Today it felt fine.  Next time I'm going to bump it to 5 sets of 12.  The skater squat was something I found on youtube for quad dominate bodyweight exercises.  I think it is a great complimentary movement to the pistol.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Legit Pistol Day

5 minute walk
.6 mile jog

5 sets of 20 (10 each leg)
pistols

1 minute rest

Every time I do these they get a little bit easier.  I'm noticeably weaker on my left leg.  I also feel like I am caving in my knees when I do these.  Still got work to do.

Monday, November 30, 2015

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Let Not One Day Pass

5 minutes walk
.5 mile jog

50-50-50
airdybe calories/burpees/airdyne calories

9:47

 I tried this workout a few months back and did it in 10:30.  This one is tough.  I think I probably did it more like 9:40 since I was fumbling with the watch timer so much.  I did the 50 burpees unbroken.  That is the most burpees I've done since I finished the 100.  To be honest, the airdyne was the hard part.

I've always wanted my own motto.  For the longest time I thought it was "speed wins".  I used to say that all the time to Derek when talking about sports.  I think I found a new one.  Let not one day pass.  The longer version of that is Let not one day pass without having made even the smallest progress towards your goal.  I have started living this motto everyday while attempting to work towards my goal of freedom from the freeways.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Pistol Squat

5 minutes walking

pullups
11,10,10,9,8

chair pistols

5 sets of 20 (10 each leg)

2 legit pistols holding a 12lbs dumbell

Today was cool.  I've been practicing doing pistol squats for a few weeks using a chair.  Today I decided to use a small stool which took my hip crease below parallel.  At the end of the 5 sets I was feeling pretty good so I decided to try a pistol holding a 12lbs dumbbell in front of me.  I did it!  I pulled off one on each leg.  Next time I do that workout there won't be any chair or stool.  It has been a while since I've done anything new.  Now if I can just figure out how to do doubleunders and handstands.

I never wrote about the 100th day.  I'm not sure why I didn't because I was pretty proud of it.  I filmed it with my phone and had every intention of putting it on youtube.  When I watched it the first thing I did was count the reps.  I remember sort of losing count and if I didn't do the full 100 I was going to have to do it again the next day.  Thankfully I ended up doing 101.  My time was 5:53.  My previous best 100 burpee time was something like 7:30, so I'm pretty happy with that improvement.  5:30 would have been better.

I tried doing some ring pushups a few days after the 100th day.  My shoulder felt a bit uncomfortable.  I would really like to go see a physical therapist about that.  My shoulder really hasn't been the same since I did bench press 2 years ago.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Watt

Day 99

5 minute walk
.5 mile jog

99 burpees

20 pull ups


Well...... tomorrow is it.  The long journey is about to come to an end.  I am really looking forward to not doing burpees on Saturday.  That being said, a tiny voice inside me is saying, hey wouldn't it be cool to go back down the ladder and go back down from 100 to 1.  Yeah, I don't think so.  My squat rack is embarrassingly dusty.  I mean need to remedy that situation in short order.  One thing I do plan to do however, is the 7 minute burpee challenge.  Somehow I need to get a hold of some big chocolate chip cookies.  Eating one of those about an hour prior to doing something burpees seem to have worked out well in the past.